Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-12
TIE HUNTING PRESERVE
That Parties From Pittsburg and Green's
boro Have Established ON Cheat.
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That Parties From Pittsburg and Green's
boro Have Established ON Cheat.
Special TslegraH 10 ne Register.
PARKERsBUEG, May 11.-AmOng the
various projects on foot for bringing West
Virginia to the front rank of q civilization
which its natural resources demand for 1t,
is that OF establishing game preserve in
the wilds of Randolph county, which, for
extent, maguifcenceand prospective pleas
ure to the hunter and angler will compare
most fayorably with any in the United
States. Your correspondent is in posses
sion of the following facts, which, perhaps,
may be perused with some interest by the
readers of the REGISTER:
The association who are developing this
territory is known as the Cheat Mountain
Fishing and Hunting Club. 1t IS COM
posed OF prominent citizens OF different
Darts of this State and Pennsylvania who
take particular pleasurein the sportsman's
uastimes. The tract now consists OF about
76, 900 acres, which has been leased for
long period OF years for nominal sum,
and which will soon be increased to lOO,-
600 acres This tract il situated
on a plateau OF the Cheat River
range of the Alleghanies. 1t has
an average width OF six miles and through
the center flows q prominent fork OF the
Cheat River. For nearly fifty miles this
wild stream tears along in the preserve at
the end Of which is a huge canyon. The
approach to this plateau Is by no means
easy. Grafton is first reached, then the
Grafton and Greenbrier road to PhlllpPl,
the nearest railroad station forty miles
away. HuttOnyille in Randolph county
must be reached by mud road alter which
there is a gradual ascent of nearly ten
miles before the game preserve Is reached.
The tract ut the other end is reached only
by the Parkersburg and StauntOn pike.
Work has begun to put this tract in shape
for the hunting aud fishing season oil 1881.
A large two story lodge is TO be built OF
heWn logs; surrounded by ample porches
upOn the outside and nicely furnished with
in with natural wood work. A number OF
camps at various points Will be built
throughout the preserve. A private tele-
graph line to Philippi will connect this
wilderness with the civilized world. A
head game keeper has been selected with a
number of assistants. The river and
smaller streams will be grit with paths
Sufficiently wide for a horse and rider.
Notwithstanding the abundance oil
came which is now found there IN great
variety. Nova Scotia on the east and
mountains and other regions on the west
will be drawn on for moose and elk with
which to stock the preserve.
The strictest surveillance is to be kept
over the grounds and a most rigid enforce
uent OF all game laws insisted upon. 1t
is reported that hundreds Of applications
from the Isaac WaltOns and Nimrods OF
other parts have been received and refused.
When everything is done that is to be
done the Cheat river game preserve OF
West Virginia will be known the nation
over. and Furthermore, will be the means
of the preservation of large quantities OF
game now ruthlessiy slaughtered.
IL is lust learned here that Eta Kneis-
lev has become an inCurable lunatic and IS
in the asylum. The facts surrounding her
misfortune are these.
short time ago she and her mother
lived in comfortable circumstances not
many miles from her in Richie county.
One day her mother was brutality murder
ed. the neighbors finding her body in
room of her house with blood all over the
walls and her head battered in horrible
manner. The girl not giving information
concerning the murder rs soon rs 1t was
thought she naturally would she was
charged with the murder. Protesting her
innocence she told long story about
man coming to the house, picking up
shovel, striking her mother dead and then
disappearing. Though she gave all the
facts in detail her story was not credited.
In course of time a chain OF circumstantial
evidence was wound around her so strong
that she was arrested, indicted for murder,
and tried. The trial lasted two weeks amid
intense excitement, resulting in an acquit-
tai. The girl then left the scene Of her
former home, where she had many ac-
uuaintances, and went to Ohio to live with
her uncle. Constantly protesting her in
uocence she has been gradually losing her
mind until now she has become incurable
rs stated above. She is q young lady not
tar from 20 years of age, and generally re-
garded before her mothers murder as of
fair intellect.